Currently also: Chief Informatics and Technology Officer (CITO) at Pangea Botanica, London/UK and Berlin/Germany

Previous positions:

Director Digital Chemistry at NUVISAN Berlin

Associate Director Computational ADME and Safety (Clinical Pharmacology & Safety Sciences/Data Science and Artificial Intelligence - CPSS/DSAI) at AstraZeneca Cambridge

Co-founder of Healx Ltd.

Co-founder of PharmEnable Ltd.

Personal Website

  • Committed to developing new life science data analysis methods (AI/ML/data science) and their application, primarily related to chemical biology, drug discovery and in silico toxicology
  • Expertise comprises data ranging from chemical structure and gene expression data to phenotypic readouts and preclinical information, applied to both efficacy- and safety/tox-related questions
  • Collaborating with academic research groups, as well as  pharmaceutical, chemical, and consumer goods companies (Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, GSK, BASF, Johnson&Johnson/Janssen, Unilever, ...)
  • Co-founder/founding CTO and current SAB member of Healx Ltd. (data-driven drug repurposing for rare diseases, and beyond); co-founder of PharmEnable Ltd.; SAB member of Lhasa Ltd. (toxicology and metabolism prediction) and Cresset Ltd.
  • Coordinator of the Computational & In Silico Toxicology Specialty Section of the British Toxicology Society (BTS)
  • Steering Committee Member of the Cambridge Alliance on Medicines Safety (CAMS)
  • Currently leading a group of ca. 15 PhD students, postdocs, project students and visitors at the Centre for Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge, https://www-cmi.ch.cam.ac.uk/centre-molecular-informatics

Publications

Prediction of Antibiotic Interactions Using Descriptors Derived from Molecular Structure.
DJ Mason, I Stott, S Ashenden, ZB Weinstein, I Karakoc, S Meral, N Kuru, A Bender, M Cokol
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
(2017)
60
Identification of Novel Class of Triazolo-Thiadiazoles as Potent Inhibitors of Human Heparanase and their Anticancer Activity.
CP Baburajeev, CD Mohan, S Rangappa, DJ Mason, JE Fuchs, A Bender, U Barash, I Vlodavsky, Basappa, KS Rangappa
BMC cancer
(2017)
17
Concordance analysis of microarray studies identifies representative gene expression changes in Parkinson's disease: a comparison of 33 human and animal studies
E Oerton, A Bender
BMC Neurology
(2017)
17
3D proteochemometrics: using three-dimensional information of proteins and ligands to address aspects of the selectivity of serine proteases
V Subramanian, QU Ain, H Henno, L-O Pietilä, JE Fuchs, P Prusis, A Bender, G Wohlfahrt
Medchemcomm
(2017)
8
Toward Understanding the Cold, Hot, and Neutral Nature of Chinese Medicines Using in Silico Mode-of-Action Analysis.
X Fu, LH Mervin, X Li, H Yu, J Li, SZ Mohamad Zobir, A Zoufir, Y Zhou, Y Song, Z Wang, A Bender
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
(2017)
57
Improving Screening Efficiency through Iterative Screening Using Docking and Conformal Prediction.
F Svensson, U Norinder, A Bender
J Chem Inf Model
(2017)
57
A fragment profiling approach to inhibitors of the orphan $\textit{M. tuberculosis}$ P450 CYP144A1
MADELINE Kavanagh, J Chenge, AZEDINE Zoufir, K McLean, AG Coyne, ANDREAS Bender, A Munro, C Abell
Biochemistry
(2017)
56
Cancer Cell Line Profiler (CCLP): a webserver for the prediction of compound activity across the NCI60 panel
I Cortés-Ciriano, DS Murrell, B Chetrit, A Bender, T Malliavin, PJ Ballester
(2017)
Current Trends in Drug Sensitivity Prediction
I Cortes-Ciriano, LH Mervin, A Bender
Current pharmaceutical design
(2017)
22
Modeling Polypharmacological Profiles by Affinity Fingerprinting.
A Peragovics, Z Simon, A Malnasi-Csizmadia, A Bender
Current pharmaceutical design
(2017)
22

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